500 Years of New WordsDundurn, 2004 - 312 páginas 500 Years of New Words takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the 21st century. All the main entries are arranged not alphabetically by in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down. Beginning with "America" in 1507 and spanning the centuries to "Marsiphobiphiliac" in 2004 (a person who would love to go to Mars but is afraid of being marooned there), this book can be opened at any page and the reader will discover a dazzling array of linguistic delights. In other words, this book is unputdownable (the main entry for 1947). If Shakespeare were alive today, he would buy this book. |
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... British tin was carried in Phoenician ships back to the Mediterranean more than six hundred years before the birth of Christ. It was sold and resold, and fashioned and refashioned, for it was far too precious to throw away once its ...
... British Transport Corporation in 1957, this film chronicles the life and times of Elizabeth I, “the Virgin Queen” of England, from her birth in 1533 (“She had been but a baby when her mother knelt at the block”) to her death nearly ...
... British engineer, Robert Whitehead, who employed steam propulsion and a gyroscope to send it to its target. Forty years later, during World War I, his new weapon came into its own as submarine-launched torpedoes sent hundreds of ships ...
... British North American colonies. This congress provided the spark that triggered the American Revolution. The Congress that serves as the legislative branch of the United States government first met on March 4, 1789, in New York City ...
... British physiologist named Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) and his son was Sir George Howard Darwin (1845–1912), a British astronomer. 1541. ABDOMEN. Abdomen is the fancy word for paunch, belly or and mathematician. guts. You could get by ...
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500 Years of New Words: the fascinating story of how, when, and why these ... Bill Sherk Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
500 Years of New Words: the fascinating story of how, when, and why these ... Bill Sherk Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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